Posted on 02/27/2015 7:50:09 AM PST by Gamecock
A homeless man has been buried in the exclusive Teutonic Cemetery within the Vatican....
His burial in a cemetery normally reserved for senior German clerics was funded by a donation from a German family.
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Pope Francis arranges for homeless man to be buried in the Vatican
Willy, a Belgian who lived on the streets around St Peters, was buried in an exclusive cemetery
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Ya know, I have an issue with the whole idea of exclusive cemeteries. Naked we come into the world, and naked we leave.
In Charleston, SC there is a church cemetery and if you are a native Charlestonian you are buried in one section. If you are not a native you are buried across the street.
There goes the neighborhood!
In Wisconsin there is Holy Hill (A Shrine, and a catholic cathedral) the priest that reside at the facility when they pass away are buried within the grounds cemetery. I really do not see anything wrong with a cemetery, so what the high German clerics are buried at a cemetery in Rome. What does some expect them to rise up and do something. Yes the vow of poverty and so forth, do you know how much it cost to bury someone nowdays. I am in the middle of placing a mother in a nursing home, the hang up is the burial trust that has to be set up. the life insurance has to be cashed in and the remaining amount in an irrevocable burial trust. The joys of watching a parent slowly destroyed by Alzheimer’s Disease is not fun.
For over 25 years he attended the 7:00 Mass, Fr. Silvestrini told Vatican Radio, explaining why he wanted a homeless among the shepherds in the Nativity Scene.
Well, like the socialists like to say, Jesus was homeless.
“A homeless man has been buried in the exclusive Teutonic Cemetery within the Vatican in the latest sign of how Pope Franciss concern for societys most vulnerable is changing the way the Church does things. Willy, a Belgian who lived on the streets around St Peters until his death in December, was well known to many priests, some of whom used to bring him food, Vatican radio reported. He died after being hospitalised with the symptoms of exposure.”
hmmm.. Royal burial as a sign of concern for a guy that was left out to die.
Well, there is that. Died of exposure. And they knew him.
I guess if Frank was really concerned he could have put a cot in the Sistine Chapel.
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This pope is truly demonstrating the heart of Jesus. I’m proud to follow God through this faith.
“Pope Francis arranges for homeless man to be buried in the Vatican”
Personally, I think the Pope should wait till the guy dies before he buries him. I mean, just because the guy is homeless, you don’t have to bury him right away, maybe he could get a job someday.
However from the earlier article: Pope Francis was not involved in an early January decision to bury a homeless man in a Vatican cemetery, a spokesman said Wednesday; . the Pope had absolutely NOTHING to do with this man's life or his burial!!!
Wrong! The Pope had NOTHING to do with it. Read the previous article
And if he was demonstrating the heart of Jesus he would have done something while this 80 year old man was alive not when he died!
EXACTLY!
Then he won’t be homeless anymore.
Have to dig him up and get another homeless guy.
For you I pray that the lord will replace your heart of stone with a loving heart of flesh.
Many families are preplanning; some used to have it on their own property.
The professional organization that funeral directors belong to had a kind of charitable thing: if a person has no one, they take turns providing a funeral for them... Also, a plot cannot be sold at our cemetery for more than one originally paid.
At the rate the world is going, my head going to end up in one place, and the rest of me, God knows where...
As far as exclusive, remember the Vatican is its own country. The people that owned the plots in that cemetery may have had them for generations: or even bought the land for that purpose.
Just a thought...
God bless you and your family, and give you strength!
Before you know it his bones will preform a miracle and he will be the first hobo saint ...patron of the homeless..
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